No Sound :(

Ric Moore wayward4now at gmail.com
Sat Nov 13 18:59:06 UTC 2010


On Sat, 2010-11-13 at 23:14 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote:

> Pulseaudio is a parasitic nuisance - but for some people it is a 
> wonderous and magical thing. Oh, and also the adherents claim that the 
> problem lies with Alsa and not with pulseaudio - naturally of 
> course...... :-) .

The problem in this case was that something was turned off, under alsa,
that runs things before pulse can get to it. Again, without alsa, pulse
doesn't not go. 

> Now, now that you have taken the first baby steps, and everything is 
> working for you, :-) , by uninstalling pulseaudio you would have lost 
> the System>Preferences>Sound control because this control is part of 
> pulseaudio.
> 
> Because I have a Creative 5.1 speaker system, I am able to control the 
> volume of all the audio stuff I use (TV, YouTube, audio CDs, DVDs) via a 
> volume/woofer control unit sitting on my desk close at hand and so I 
> have no need for any other controls on the screen; as well, the apps I 
> use - like vlc, xine, etc - have their own volume controls.
> 
> However, if you want to have a volume control which you could access via 
> System>Preferences>Sound where you can use the sliders to control volume 
> then all you need to do is to go back to Synaptic Package Manager and 
> re-install pulseaudio - just that one entry, pulseaudio, and you will 
> get that menu in Preferences>Sound back to play with.

Ack! He also has to have pavucontrol installed, else pulse is borked.
Ric

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